Keeping the Night Watch - Hardcover

Smith, Hope Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805072020 ISBN 13: 9780805072020

Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 2008

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old C.J., an African-American boy, chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.

About this title

Review:

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner
Land of Enchantment Book Award Master Reading List for 2004-2005
A "School Library Journal" "Best Book"
" Smith and Evans have created a wonderful way to introduce young readers to the world of poetry." --"Black Issues Book Review"
"Hope Smith's voice is vivid and evocative, I'm glad her words are in the world."--Jacqueline Woodson
"Good poetry touches the heart, and this offering does just that." --"School Library Journal," starred
"Evans's illustrations are characteristically powerful, the naturalistic renderings carrying great emotion." --"Kirkus Reviews "
* "Beautiful." -- "Booklist," starred review "A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers." -- "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" "[an] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth." -- "The" "Horn Book""" ""

* "Beautiful." — "Booklist", starred review "A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers." — "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" "[an] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth." — "The" "Horn Book""" "" 

* "Beautiful." -- "Booklist", starred review "A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers." -- "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" "[an] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth." -- "The""Horn Book""" ""

* "Beautiful." --"Booklist", starred review "A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers." --"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books""[An] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth." --"The""Horn Book"

* "Beautiful." --"Booklist," starred review "A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers." --"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books""[An] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth." --"The""Horn Book"

* Beautiful. "Booklist, starred review"

A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers. "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"

[An] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth. "The Horn Book""

* Beautiful. Booklist, starred review

A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

[An] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth. The Horn Book

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"* Beautiful." --Booklist, starred review

"A lovely melding of accesible beauty, hard truth, and aesthetic inspiration for young readers and budding writers." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"[An] affecting portrait of one family's rebirth." --The Horn Book

About the Author:

Hope Anita Smith is the author of The Way a Door Closes, the prequel toKeeping the Night Watch. A professional story-teller, Hope teaches poetry-writing workshops to all grade levels. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

E.B. Lewis has illustrated over 35 books for young readers, including Coming on Home Soon, for which he received a Caldecott honor, and His Talkin' About Bessie, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. He teaches illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and lives in Folsom, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0805072020
• ISBN 13: 9780805072020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 73
• Illustrator: Lewis E. B.